Holding company · Central, Hong Kong
The Bear Group Ltd is the Hong Kong holding company behind Zolanius, a product and technology practice for startups from seed to Series B, and the accelerators and investors behind them. Waranya Chamrat and Dirk Bauer founded it together in 2020.
Two founders. No agency, no bench, no account managers.
Thirty-five years building and leading technology teams across fourteen industries, from Unix systems through early e-commerce to IoT platforms, fintech infrastructure and SaaS. Remote since 2005, with teams in Ukraine, the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Hardware and software, which most CTOs have done one of. PhD, University of Zurich, 1997. Based in Bangkok.
↗ dirkbauer.com
Twelve years across SaaS, IoT, fintech, e-commerce and enterprise, delivered to teams in Europe, the US, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Came into product through mechatronics and IT before UI, research and strategy, which is why she reads products structurally rather than visually. Native Thai, based in Bangkok.
↗ waranyachamrat.comCore and Bloat™ is the classification method developed inside the group. Every part of a system goes into exactly one of four boxes: Core, Platform, Bloat, No-Go. It is applied in all Zolanius work. The method and the newsletter live at coreandbloat.com.